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windows XP Home cd boot????

tried to turn on my laptop, haven't used in awhile and I now have a blank
screen...It's like my windows XP Home is gone...can get into BIOS and set to
boot from cd rom...but it says boot from CD press any key I do that says
checkin hardware config .....and then nothing happens...I have floppy disk
but floppy on my computer doesn't work...what should I do....or what can I
do...Pls help ....why would my operating sys just be gone any suggestions
....very confused. all help grtly appre. in advance.
Dec 30 '07 #1
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Katrina69 wrote:
tried to turn on my laptop, haven't used in awhile and I now have a
blank screen...It's like my windows XP Home is gone...can get into
BIOS and set to boot from cd rom...but it says boot from CD press any
key I do that says checkin hardware config .....and then nothing
happens...I have floppy disk but floppy on my computer doesn't
work...what should I do....or what can I do...Pls help ....why would
my operating sys just be gone any suggestions ...very confused. all
help grtly appre. in advance.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with managed C++ programming - the subject
of this newsgroup. I hope you find some helpe somewhere, but this is not
the place to be looking for it.

-cd
Dec 30 '07 #2
This is a newsgroup dedicated to Visual Studio C++, .NET programming. You should try posting in a more appropriate newsgroup, for
example, microsoft.publi c.windowsxp.set up_deployment

Brian

"Katrina69" <Ka*******@disc ussions.microso ft.comwrote in message news:CD******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
tried to turn on my laptop, haven't used in awhile and I now have a blank
screen...It's like my windows XP Home is gone...can get into BIOS and set to
boot from cd rom...but it says boot from CD press any key I do that says
checkin hardware config .....and then nothing happens...I have floppy disk
but floppy on my computer doesn't work...what should I do....or what can I
do...Pls help ....why would my operating sys just be gone any suggestions
...very confused. all help grtly appre. in advance.
Dec 30 '07 #3

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